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GRETE, a river o£ England, which runs into the 
Litne, about two miles fouth from Kirkby Lonfdale, in 
Weflinoreland. 
GRETNA GREEN, a celebrated village of Scot¬ 
land, in the county of Dumfries: whither minors ot 
England generally refort to be married, as out of the 
jurifdidtion of the marriage adt : eight miles north 
of Carlifle. 
GRET'SER (James), alearned German Jefuit, born 
at Marckdorf, in 1560. He entered into the order when 
he was feventeen years of age, and, applying with great 
affiduity to his ftudies, became a confiderable proficient 
in the ancient and modern languages, philofophy, theo¬ 
logy, an d ecclefiaftical and profane antiquities. He 
filled fucccflively the chairs of philofophy, morals, and 
divinity, during twenty-five years, in the univerfity of 
Ingoldftadt, and died there in 1625, when fixt^-four 
years of age. He fpent a confiderable part of his life 
in writing again# proteftant authors, and in defence of 
the order to which he belonged. The ableft of his con- 
troverfial pieces are thofe intended to refute the an- 
fwers of Whitaker, Itinius, Daneau, and other protef- 
tants, to Bellarmine, which form a colledlion in two 
volumes folio, printed at Ingoldftadt, in 1607 and 1609. 
He alio wrote a great number of treatifes on profane and 
ecclefiaftical antiquities, one of the moll celebrated of 
which is a learned but A i fl u fie work De Cruce, in 3 vols. 
4-to. He was well verfed in the Greek tongue, and 
publilhed fome grammatical pieces in that language, 
together with notes on fome Greek authors. All his 
works, originals, and tranflations, amounting to one 
hundred and fifty-three in number, were printed at Ra- 
tilbon in 1739, > n feventeen volumes folio. 
GRET'SYHL, or Grethe, ocGroete, a town of 
Germany, in the circle of Weftphalia, on the court of 
Eaft Friefland : ten miles north-narth-weft of Emden. 
GRE'VA, /. In old records, the fea-lhore. 
GREVE, y. [ Gerefa , or rather Reve, Sax.] A word 
of power and authority, fignifying as much as comes or 
vicecomcs ; and hence comes our Jhrieve, portrevc, &c. 
which by the Saxons were written Sciregerefa, portgercfa. 
Lambert, in his Expofiti.on of Saxon Words, verbo Prae- 
feclus, makes it the fame with reve. See Hoieden Part, 
pojler Annal.fol. 346. 
GREVE AU LANCHAN, a bay on the north-weft 
coaft of the ifland of Jerfey. 
GREVE DE LECQ, a bay on the north coaft of 
the illand of Jerfey. 
GRE'VEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and bilhopric of Munfter: eight miles north 
of Munfter. 
GRE'VEN, f. A coin in Mufcovy, in value one fliil- 
ling, fterling. 
GRE'VENBROICH, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weftphalia, and duchy of Juliers: ten miles 
north-north-eafl of Juliers. Lat.5i.6.N. Ion. 24. 4. E. 
GRE'VEN STEIN, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of the Ldwer Rhine, and duchy of Weftphalia : fix- 
teen miles weft of Brilon. 
GRE'VERAD, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and duchy of Berg: one mile north-weft 
-of Solingen. 
GRE'VILLE (Fulke), lord Brooke, diftinguiflied for 
his literary talents, was the defcendant of an ancient 
family fettled at Beauchamp’s-court, in Warwicklhire, 
where he was born in 1554. He was educated at both 
univerfities, but chiefly at Trinity college, Cambridge, 
and afterwards added to his academical acquifitions the 
ornamental accomplifliments of a gentleman, in a courfe 
of foreign travel. He was early introduced to the 
•court of queen Elizabeth, where he was much admired, 
and attracted the notice of his royal miftrefs fo as to be¬ 
come a particular favourite. She (hewed her regard in 
a manner not very pleafing to one of his gallant fpirit, 
by reftraining him from taking part in fome martial en= 
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terprifes abroad on which he was bent. For his difo- 
bedience in fome inftances, he was punifhed by inter¬ 
vals of baniftunent from court. His favour during this 
reign procured him little advancement, and it was 
chiefly through the intereft of fir Henry Sidney that he 
obtained two lucrative pofts in the court of the marches 
of Wales, for thefe he was probably indebted to his 
friend/hip with fir Henry’s illu(Indus fon, fir Philip Sid¬ 
ney, which was fo intimate, that on his heroic death in 
the Low-countries, he bequeathed to Fulke Greville a 
moiety of his books. In 1597 he received from the 
queen the honour of knighthood, and two years after, 
the office of treafurer of marine caufes. He fat in feve- 
ral parliaments during this period as knight of the (hire 
for the county of Warwick. 
At the acceffion of James, he was created a knight of 
the Bath, and foon after had the grant of the cartle of 
Warwick. Other valuable'grants were made him ; but 
it was not till a later period of the reign that he rofe ta 
any poll in the (late. In 1614 he was made under-trea¬ 
surer and chancellor of the exchequer, and admitted 
into the privy-Council ; and was alfo a gentleman of the 
bed-chamber. His intereft railed him, in 1620, to the 
peerage, by the ftyle of Lord Brooke of Beauchamp’s- 
court. He was continued in the privy-council by 
Charles I. but of his political ch'aradler we have little 
information. He had long diitinguiftied himfelf as a 
patron of letters; and in 1627 he teftified his gratitude 
to his alma mater, by founding at Cambridge a hiftory 
ledture, with a handfome (alary to the profefl'or. His 
long and profperous life was terminated in a tragical 
manner, in 1628. One of his domeftics, named Rtlph 
Haywood, who had faithfully ferved him many years, 
finding himfelf likely to be fruftrated of his expected 
reward, entered into a warm expoftuiation on the fub- 
jeft, when alone with him in his chamber. Lord Brooke 
returned a fevere reprimand, which threw the fervant 
into fuch a paroxyfm of rage, that.he gave his ntafter 
a mortal (tab in the back, and then, locking himfelf up 
in his room, put an end to his own life with the fame 
weapon. His Jordfhip was interred at Warwick, and 
upon his tomb the following epitaph was placed, by his 
own direction: “Fulke Greville, fervant to’ queen 
Elizabeth, counfellor to king James, and friend to fir 
Philip Sidney.’’ 
Though Greville was known to be a writer in profe 
arid verle during his life-time, yet few of his competiti¬ 
ons were made public till after his death. In 1632 the fol¬ 
lowing poetical works appeared under his name : 1. A 
Treatife of Human Learning, one hundred aiid fifty 
ftanzas, of fix,lines each. 2. An Inquifition upon Fame 
and Honour, eighty-fix ftanzas. 3. A Treatife of Wars 
fixty-eight ftanzas. 4. The Tragedy of Alaham. /. 
The Tragedy of Muftapha. 6. Casliaca; containing 
one hundred and nine fonnets, moftly on the topic o*f 
love. To thefe rmay be added his poetical remains 
confiding of A Treatife of Monarchy, and A Treatife 
of Religion. Of his profe writings, the moft intereffing 
is the Life of the great objedt of his admiration, fir Phi¬ 
lip Sidney. . His ftyle in ail his works is affedted and in¬ 
volved, full of metaphor and digreflion, yet difiplayiiw a 
full mind and a large acquaintance with various learning 
GREVIL'LERS, a town of France, in the departl 
merit of the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftridt of Bapaume: half a league well of 
Bapaume. 
GREUS'SEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and county of Schwartzburg : eighteen 
miles eaft of Muhlhaufen, and fixteen north of Erfurt. 
Lat. 51.6. N. Ion. 28. 31. E. Ferro. 
GREUT, / With miners, the earth which contains, 
or has contained, the ore.—A fort of tin ore, with its 
great ; that is, a congeries of cryftals, or fparks of fpar, 
of the bignels of bayfalt, and of a brown (hining colour 
iinmerfed therein. Grew. 
GREW*, 
